UK producer Powell has surprise released his third record of 2020. As with the previous two—flash across the intervals_lp and multiply the sides_lp—the new album, on the feet of a wind, is released via “a ƒolder,” the multimedia platform Powell co-founded with the artists Michael Amstad and Marte Eknæs. It’s out on vinyl in January. Watch a video for “the pigeon trk” (aka “acid always equal to the base”) below. Check out the album here. Find the tracklist and album cover below.
In notes for the album, Powell acknowledged that it “isn’t easy” to listen to the album in one go and, in fact, he probably wouldn’t recommend it. That “isn’t to say you can’t try,” he added.
In a press release, he said, “Xenakis talked about creating universes with sound, and we are all free to create our own worlds in life, art—whatever. This is what happened to me in a way: I have been in this world for three years or something, and I don’t really want to leave. The folder is a refuge.”
Read Pitchfork’s feature “How Powell Turned Wolfgang Tillmans’ ‘Sound Photographs’ Into Radical Noise,” about the duo’s 2018 EP Spoken by the Other.
on the feet of a wind:
01 servenofunction, 19
02 a line of flight, 1-3
03 get he!p
04 acid always equal to the base
05 rise, world unfold i
06 rise, world unfold ii
07 rise, world unfold iii
